"Let me get this straight......calling George Bush a chimp was fine and PC. Calling Obama a Marxist or a Fascist (the latter of which his policies resemble) is racist? Since when is political ideology race-related?"
Oleg Volk
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"The freedom and happiness of man...[are] the sole objects of all legitimate government."
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1810
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"People will survive this; some because of luck. If you have no food to eat, no warmth in the deep of winter, it doesn't matter whether little green men or Muhammed broke your world. You will still die frozen and hungry. But if you have enough to eat, just enough, and if you have some shelter and safety, again just enough, then maybe your living or dying might have something to do with whether you fall to madness and superstition, or whether you hold onto your rationality."
-- The fictional character Sergeant Fryderyk Milosz, Polish GROM special forces unit operator, in John Birmingham's novel "Without Warning"
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" Nobody ever lost money underestimating the STUPIDITY of the American public."
Anonymous
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"When young men seek to be like you, when lazy men resent you, when powerful men look over their shoulder at you, when cowardly men plot behind your back, when corrupt men wish you were gone and evil men want you dead ... Only then will you have done your share."
-- Song lyrics by Phil Messina
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"For the resolute and determined there is time and opportunity."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force."
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, 1796
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"Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second."
-- Aron Bielski
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"We shall have lost something vital and beyond price on the day when the state denies us the right to resort to force."
-- Supreme Court Just Louis D. Brandeis, as quoted by Alfred Lief, The Brandeis Guide to the Modern World (1941), p. 212, published by Little, Brown & Co., Boston.